I like to say that I tried the Conrad card without bracket. But that result in strange reaction from XXhighend and some small ticks/plops.

The Silvertsone does not give that result so i am happy. But the sound is real special. Playing some live recorded music and you can hear the audience so well. It is if the background has become much more forward.

:-)

I see now that this card (Conrad) has a sata connection also. It alway's worked nut i now wonder if that had to be connected aswel.

I don’t want to spoil the party, but I feel I have to share my experiences.

After listening to the Silverstone card for over a week now, first with and later without the bracket I rejected the card and prefer the mobo USB 3 connection.

From the start I heard little difference between the mobo USB 3 and the Silverstone card. The Silverstone shows a sound-stage that is a kind of “asymmetrical”. I don’t know how to describe this otherwise , but the sound-stage appears shifted a bit to the left hand side and therefore to be less focused and less deep. After prolonged listening this becomes irritating, in the sense that I got a feeling that there’s something wrong with my ears. With the mobo usb 3 connection the sound-stage snaps into place.

I have no clue what the explanation is for my different experience with the Silverstone card.

Well I just added the insulated Silverstone USB3 card finally and wow what a difference. Sorry no NOS Dac yet but still a very worthwhile upgrade. Tried Spotify first and that was an improvement. More of everything musically. I've still got other things connected to the computer USB wise.

Finally got around to installing an isolated Silverstone card yesterday. I was motivated by Peter's recent comments about the MB usb3 connection sounding dull compared to Silverstone. Several years ago I threw out the Renesis card I had been using in favor of the MB connection because the sound was so much better, less noisy and more natural sounding, with the MB connection. After installing the Silverstone card yesterday I did not have to install the driver on the small disk that came with the Silverstone; rather the PC automatically used some native windows driver or maybe the Renesias driver that I never uninstalled. Anyway, my question is should I use the driver that came with the card?

Out of the box it sounds pretty good, cymbals shimmer even more, but am letting it burn in a few days before doing serious listening. Eva Cassidy's voice decides all.

Telstar, if you only don't forget to compare with the MoBo USB. For me, the Silverstone has a character which usually was fine, but not on 14393.0. Whether better than USB2, I simply don't know !

Maybe others ever compared.

Regards,Peter

Oh, ok. Then I think i'll just try with a spare usb3 card I have laying around and compare with motherboard usb2.Theoretically a usb3 port is better and it wouldn't be shared with the usb2 (I have a usb keyboard/mouse).

I have to compare one thing at a time, within the same OS, otherwise is a moot point.